10 Nov
2005
10 Nov
'05
5:16 p.m.
On Thursday 10 November 2005 23:36, dasimov@earthlink.net wrote:
I hope to buy one of {maple, mathematica, mathlab} to run on a Macintosh I'm planning to buy in the near future.
I'd like to hear preferences and reasons from any of you who have used more than one of these.
Matlab is a completely different animal from the other two; it emphasizes numerical over symbolic computations. It seems unlikely to me that it would meet your needs well if Maple or Mathematica do, and vice versa. I don't have enough, or recent enough, experience with Maple or Mathematica to have a useful opinion on that particular holy war. -- g